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COMPANY NEWS; TIVO AND SONICBLUE AGREE TO DROP PATENT LAWSUITS

TiVo Inc. and Sonicblue Inc., rivals aiming to capture the growing market for video-data recorders, agreed to drop patent infringement suits against each other, the companies said. TiVo of Alviso, Calif., and Sonicblue of Santa Clara, Calif., exchanged lawsuits earlier this year, accusing the other of infringing patented technology that allows viewers to record television programs on a hard disk rather than on tape.

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A version of this article appears in print on November 9, 2002, on Page C00004 of the National edition with the headline: COMPANY NEWS; TIVO AND SONICBLUE AGREE TO DROP PATENT LAWSUITS. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe